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The internet is the new frontier, and like all frontier towns it's messy, violent, lawless ... and women are well advised to stay inside with the blinds down. Or ride a real fast horse and carry a big gun.
I'm sorry the author resigned from her campaign job. Did the Edwards people who hired her actually tell her to go? I didn't get that impression from this story. And if they didn't, then she shouldn't have left. 'They' would have found a new target soon enough.
All of this reminded me of my experience in student politics. A big caffuffle happened about a misquotation regarding drugs. Ugly right wing men abused my colleague on national TV. Tabloids phoned her father asking if he wasn't ashamed of his daughter. It seems to be a media sub-genre - the humiliation of the ingenue. But it goes away, and they find a new target soon enough.
Regarding the especially unpleasant harrassment of young women - I know it's true. And I know it takes a special kind of person who get their thrills from writing foul emails to women - and there seem to be a lot of them out there.
